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Friday, August 28, 2015

Friday Favorites 6

Happy Friday! I am elbows deep in Trello, of all things, but the cat is good company. Here we go...

I took a stab at Activity Builder with an activity that deals with discovering pi and thinking of circumference vs diameter as a proportional relationship. And wow, it's so much better because of their Twitter interaction. I don't know if my favorite part is setting a table to make points draggable only vertically, or their suggestion to share Teacher Notes in a linked google document.

Are in this shared google folder. If you haven't grokked the magic of Talking Points yet, go read you some cheesemonkey wonders.

OER Curricula and Curricular Outlines

In case I haven't talked your ear off about it yet, I'm of the strong opinion that a school's math department should Decide on a Coherent Curriculum and riff off of that, rather than expecting their teachers to create a curriculum on the fly using random resources they find on the Internet. Some textbook series are good, and there are also decent OER (Open Educational Resource) ones are already out there, and too many people don't know about them.